John R. Walter

John R. Walter is Chairman of Ashlin Management Company and was elected to Deere & Company Board of Directors, 1991.

"Walter is the retired president and CEO of AT&T Corporation, a position he held from 1996 to 1997. Previously, he was chairman and CEO of R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, a print and digital information management company, from 1989 through 1996.

"John Walter has been a director of Manpower Inc since 1998, and served as non-executive chairman of the company from 1999 to 2001. He is chairman of the Ashlin Management Company and a director of Abbott Laboratories, Applied Graphics Technologies, Inc., Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, and SNP Corporation of Singapore.

"He is a member of the boards of trustees of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Northwestern University.

"Walter has a bachelor's degree in business administration from Miami University, Ohio."Also See


 * Director, African Wildlife Foundation